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501  7,1 |             had promised to send the Emperor a land army, and Venice,
502  7,1 |         Germany and the “schismatic” Emperor of Byzantium. It was thought
503  7,1 |             divided with the eastern Emperor. In a treaty with the pope
504  7,1 |         himself to expel the eastern Emperor from Italy. But, shortly
505  7,1 |        Barbarossa that the Byzantine Emperor had in view the conquest
506  7,1 |         state of dependence from one emperor to the other; on the contrary,
507  7,1 |       superiority over the Byzantine Emperor.~ When the war between Frederick
508  7,1 |             the aid of the Byzantine Emperor. The battle of Legnano,
509  7,1 |             submitted himself to the Emperor and was pardoned by him.
510  7,1 |             for Manuel’s pardon. The Emperor was at Mopsuestia (Mamistra
511  7,1 |        prostrated himself before the Emperor, presenting to him the hilt
512  7,1 |          courteously received by the Emperor. But Baldwin was forced
513  7,1 |             to furnish troops to the Emperor. Eustathius of Thessalonica
514  7,1 |            fame and the deeds of the Emperor and recognizing from afar
515  7,1 |      horseback but also unarmed, the Emperor passed through streets decorated
516  7,1 |              and wars, the Byzantine Emperor “never lost sight of the
517  7,1 |          Ephraim in the reign of the Emperor Manuel Porphyrogenitus Comnenus
518  7,1 |              suzerainty of the Greek emperor was established over the
519  7,1 |          been accorded to him by the Emperor. This reception is thoroughly
520  7,1 |              down by the side of the Emperor. Tournaments, races, and
521  7,1 |             guest. One day, when the Emperor and sultan had dinner together,
522  7,1 |             presents he got from the Emperor.~ In such circumstances,
523  7,1 |          them a complete defeat. The Emperor barely saved his life and
524  7,1 |         follows:~ ~From that day the emperor is said to have borne, ever
525  7,1 |              battle was given by the Emperor in that letter; among other
526  7,1 |      panegyrist of Manuel turned the Emperor’s very flight before the
527  7,1 |         opened negotiations with the Emperor which led to the conclusion
528  7,1 |             authority of the western emperor and yield to the authority
529  7,1 |      Hohenstaufen that the Byzantine emperor should submit to him in
530  7,1 |              his position as western emperor. The idea of a single empire
531  7,1 |        society headed by the western emperor and the pope. Over ten thousand
532  7,1 |          receive the heritage of the Emperor, and no one among his successors
533  7,1 |       purpose, with the death of the Emperor Manuel Comnenus there has
534  7,1 |            as a defender of the weak Emperor Alexius II, surrounded by
535  7,1 |       shortly after, the unfortunate Emperor Alexius II were strangled.
536  7,1 |            expectations from the new Emperor. The two chief problems
537  7,1 |           the Forty Martyrs, and the Emperor was represented there not
538  7,1 |        irritation and hatred for the Emperor gradually grew among the
539  7,1 |             the plans of the western emperor against Byzantium, in order
540  7,1 |             historian remarked: “The Emperor hostile to the Kingdom of
541  7,1 |            the advice and aid of the Emperor, in occupying Jerusalem,
542  7,1 |        suzerainty of Andronicus; the Emperor should take possession of
543  7,1 |         Isaac Angelus was proclaimed emperor. Andronicus was dethroned
544  7,2 |         married to a daughter of the Emperor Alexius; he was the grandfather
545  7,2 |          Isaac II Angelus, the first emperor from this house, who was
546  7,2 |            and troops, dethroned the Emperor. Isaac was blinded and imprisoned,
547  7,2 |           his brother Alexius became Emperor. He is known as Alexius
548  7,2 |     qualities and capacities the new Emperor scarcely differed from his
549  7,2 |            might be presented to the Emperor for his signature, he signed
550  7,2 |            be put upon Olympus.” The Emperor’s conduct found imitators
551  7,2 |      resulted in the proclamation as Emperor of a certain Alexius V Ducas
552  7,2 |             to terrific devastation. Emperor Mourtzouphlos had time to
553  7,2 |              Empire not one talented emperor; it only accelerated the
554  7,2 |            Ansbert, who followed the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in
555  7,2 |              that in the Balkans the Emperor had to fight against Greeks
556  7,2 |            calls Peter or Kalopeter “Emperor of the Vlachs and of the
557  7,2 |              and Cumans,” or simply “Emperor of the Vlachs who was called
558  7,2 |           who was called by them the Emperor of Greece” (Kalopetrus Bachorum [
559  7,2 |       alliance against the Byzantine Emperor, but on condition that Frederick
560  7,2 |             the hands of the western Emperor; there was a moment when
561  7,2 |      defeated by the Bulgarians. The Emperor himself narrowly escaped
562  7,2 |             made his brother Alexius Emperor. First of all, Alexius had
563  7,2 |           Great Župan of Serbia, the Emperor Isaac Angelus, and even
564  7,2 |            an envoy of the Byzantine Emperor with Frederick before his
565  7,2 |           his message to the western Emperor, Isaac named him “the king
566  7,2 |          Alemannia” and himself “the emperor of the Romans;” he accused
567  7,2 |         Cilicia. There, in 1190, the Emperor was, by mere accident, drowned
568  7,2 |             attitude towards another emperor who claimed to possess the
569  7,2 |         absolute power, that is, the Emperor of Byzantium. But besides
570  7,2 |              daughter of the deposed Emperor Isaac, and thereby created
571  7,2 |           Henry VI the new Byzantine Emperor “was to fear not only the
572  7,2 |            fear not only the Western Emperor, the heir of the Norman
573  7,2 |            came to Henry begging the Emperor to confer upon him the royal
574  7,2 |              belief of the Byzantine Emperor seems not to have alarmed
575  7,2 |           whether a legitimate Greek emperor or a usurper would sit on
576  7,3 |          this in mind, probably, the Emperor Alexius III wrote Innocent
577  7,3 |             the power of the western emperor, our rival.” In reality,
578  7,3 |              want to see the eastern emperor a schismatic; he opened
579  7,3 |        forgotten the precepts of the Emperor and Pope.” Thus, the Russian
580  7,3 |     welcoming the restored Byzantine Emperor as an ally, Philip might
581  7,3 |              head, demanded from the Emperor’s son the fulfillment of
582  7,3 |           out. The son-in-law of the Emperor Alexius III, the ambitious
583  7,3 |        Mourtzouphlos, was proclaimed Emperor at the beginning of 1204;
584  7,3 |          Mourtzouphlos, known as the Emperor Alexius V, was a nominee
585  7,3 |            Frenchmen was to elect as emperor that man who, in their opinion,
586  7,3 |           Church and Empire;” to the Emperor was to be assigned a quarter
587  7,3 |            which did not provide the Emperor; all the crusaders who received
588  7,3 |              take feudal oath to the Emperor; only the Doge Dandolo was
589  7,3 |    possession of Constantinople. The Emperor Alexius V Ducas Mourtzouphlos,
590  7,3 |              of the selection of the emperor arose. One man seemed destined
591  7,3 |           assembled to elect the new emperor and fixed its choice, not
592  7,3 |        Boniface. He was duly elected Emperor and was crowned in St. Sophia
593  7,3 |            After the-election of the Emperor the next problem was how
594  7,3 |             and Dandolo, so that the Emperor received five-eighths of
595  7,3 |            from paying homage to the Emperor, and styled himself “lord
596  7,3 |         territory was divided by the Emperor into a great number of larger
597  7,3 |             vassal oath to the Latin Emperor of Constantinople.~ Boniface
598  7,3 |              accomplished fact.~ The Emperor Baldwin, who in his letter
599  7,3 |              by the Grace of God the Emperor of Constantinople and always
600  7,4 |             in power between God and emperor; kings are allowed to do
601  7,4 |             same author stated: “The Emperor is subject neither to the
602  7,4 |         either side by side with the Emperor Constantine or, if any one
603  7,4 |            this measure aroused, the Emperor returned to the churches
604  7,4 |            Athos was declared by the Emperor exempt forever from taxes
605  7,4 |           Athos, was ordained by the Emperor himself, so that Athos was
606  7,4 |         published on that matter the Emperor granted this island to Christodulus
607  7,4 |               typicon) issued by the Emperor in this connection and is
608  7,4 |            disputes organized by the Emperor nor the burning of the head
609  7,4 |         continued to exist. Then the Emperor appealed to the monk Euthymius
610  7,4 |               In accordance with the Emperor’s desire Zigabenus drew
611  7,4 |            doctrine. By order of the Emperor a list of Italus’ errors
612  7,4 |      relations, as the appeal of the Emperor Michael VII Parapinakes
613  7,4 |            under the pressure of the Emperor this delicate problem was
614  7,4 |     concerning the union between the Emperor and Popes Calixtus II and
615  7,4 |          lend a friendly hand to the Emperor, especially Pope Hadrian
616  7,4 |        Sicily and was angry with the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who
617  7,4 |          council was summoned by the Emperor in the capital to put an
618  7,4 |       explained by the fact that the Emperor’s policy in both fields
619  7,4 |             arose in Byzantinum; the Emperor himself took part in it.
620  7,4 |         order to prevent the western Emperor from getting possession
621  7,4 |             the “schismatic” eastern Emperor, even a usurper such as
622  7,4 |             Alexius Comnenus, became Emperor of a state in which the
623  7,4 |             Byzantium because of the Emperor’s Latin sympathies; at the
624  7,4 |             was well received by the Emperor; in his book he gave a description
625  7,4 |            the whole Empire, and the Emperor must contend with grand
626  7,4 |              property granted by the Emperor; if, none the less, a transference
627  7,4 |            of the Constantinopolitan Emperor Alexius.” This was the beginning
628  7,4 |     privileges granted Venice by the Emperor are discussed and where
629  7,4 |             Comnenus. Under the same emperor the Pisans obtained very
630  7,4 |             Maxim in particular. The Emperor Alexius Comnenus himself
631  7,4 |               the eldest daughter of Emperor Alexius, Anna Comnena, is
632  7,4 |         various points of view.~ The Emperor Manuel, who was fond of
633  7,4 |             frank enthusiasm for the Emperor.”~ Michael and Nicetas Acominati,
634  7,4 |              the court of the Nicean emperor, Theodore Lascaris, who
635  7,4 |         occasion of the death of the Emperor Manuel, and other writings.
636  7,4 |         oration a few days after the Emperor’s death. Michael’s orations
637  7,4 |             underworld. He saw there Emperor Romanus Diogenes, John Italus,
638  7,4 |            Psellus, the iconoclastic emperor, Theophilus, and so on.
639  7,4 |         dedicated to the wife of the Emperor Manuel, the German princess
640  7,4 |          Comnenus to the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople, Baldwin;
641  7,4 |             Christian mosaicists for Emperor Manuel Comnenus in 1169.
642  8,1 |            count of Flanders, became Emperor of Constantinople and master
643  8,2 |               daughter of the former Emperor Alexius III, and to the
644  8,2 |          been regarded as a possible emperor of Byzantium by the Constantinopolitan
645  8,2 |          most talented and energetic emperor of Nicaea. After his death
646  8,2 |          years with the title not of emperor, but of despot. Within the
647  8,2 |           sudden news that the Latin emperor, Baldwin, had been captured
648  8,2 |           could not regard the Latin emperor as his equal, but must look
649  8,2 |            Western chivalry, and the Emperor Baldwin himself was taken
650  8,2 |             The fate of the captured emperor is not known; but, apparently,
651  8,2 |        before, in 378, another Roman emperor, Valens, had been killed
652  8,2 |         avenging the evils which the Emperor Basil II had inflicted upon
653  8,2 |            15] in his letter a Latin emperor calls him a “great destroyer
654  8,2 |            raised of proclaiming him emperor instead of despot. As the
655  8,2 |          Nicaea and crowned Theodore Emperor in the same year, 1208.[
656  8,2 |           The author of one of them, Emperor Theodore II Lascaris, addressed
657  8,2 |             belong to the pen of the Emperor himself, but it reflects
658  8,3 |             to the Latin Empire. The Emperor of Nicaea could not, by
659  8,4 |           the same battle the former emperor, Alexius III, who had taken
660  8,4 |       victory of the Greek Christian Emperor of Nicaea over the Muslims
661  8,5 |        Theodore’s victory, the Latin emperor, Henry, who feared the brave
662  8,5 |         Henry, actually weakened the Emperor of Nicaea. A historian of
663  8,5 |               and, setting up for an emperor, he often pressed upon us
664  8,7 |           stayed at the court of the Emperor of Nicaea. When the late
665  8,7 |             in ruling the state, the Emperor of Nicaea granted Michael’
666  8,7 |              of allegiance to him as emperor as well as to his successors.
667  8,7 |             oath he had taken to the Emperor of Nicaea, and when he judged
668  8,7 |             his capture of the Latin Emperor of Constantinople, Peter
669  8,7 |                the barons elected as emperor his brother-in-law, Peter
670  8,7 |             coronation of an eastern emperor had taken place in St. Peter’
671  8,7 |          part of Peter’s troops. The Emperor himself, according to one
672  8,7 |              that of the first Latin Emperor, Baldwin, is veiled in mystery;
673  8,7 |          long as the energetic Latin Emperor, Henry, was alive, he could
674  8,7 |           Henry and of the new Latin Emperor, Peter de Courtenay, the
675  8,7 |            that is to say, to become emperor of the Romans. This meant
676  8,7 |          full title of the Byzantine Emperor: “Theodore in Christ God
677  8,7 |              Theodore Angelus as the Emperor of the Romans was considered
678  8,7 |         Theodore’s coronation as the Emperor of Thessalonica and his
679  8,8 |            had one common foe in the Emperor of Constantinople. But the
680  8,8 |       agreement concerning the Latin Emperor, for each of them wished
681  8,8 |             speedy help is given the Emperor, it is to be feared that
682  8,8 |         asking him to help the Latin Emperor.[61]~ Soon after his ascension
683  8,8 |       already at the disposal of the Emperor of Nicaea, he seized some
684  8,8 |           moment for the Latins. The Emperor of Thessalonica was on the
685  8,9 |            On the death of the Latin Emperor, Robert de Courtenay (1228),
686  8,9 |        played by Theodore of Epirus, Emperor of Thessalonica, who concluded
687  8,9 |         think, not with the title of emperor but with that of despot.
688  8,9 |             himself in the documents emperor.[65] In the further history
689  8,9 |              and I have captured the Emperor himself, Theodore Comnenus,
690  8,9 |              of Thessalonica and the Emperor of Nicaea, between the European
691  8,9 |            the West for help for the Emperor of Constantinople, the alarmed
692  8,9 |           dearest son in Christ, the Emperor of Constantinople.”[69]
693  8,9 |           Baldwin II, the last Latin Emperor, left Constantinople and
694  8,9 |              a defender of the Latin Emperor. Simultaneously with this
695  8,10|         widely separated rulers, the Emperor of Nicaea and the western
696  8,10|            of Nicaea and the western Emperor, Frederick II Hohenstaufen.~
697  8,10|         latter, in the person of the Emperor Henry VI, at the end of
698  8,10|              and at the same time an Emperor of genius.”[72] A subject
699  8,10|           interest to the historian, Emperor Frederick II represents
700  8,10|            stubborn; three times the Emperor was excommunicated and he
701  8,10|      correspondence with the western Emperor and had even received from
702  8,10|           and return it to the legal emperor; for his part the Emperor
703  8,10|            emperor; for his part the Emperor of Nicaea pledged himself
704  8,10|            the vassal of the western Emperor and restore the union between
705  8,10|              is the cypress-tree, my Emperor is the ivy.[76]~ ~Constance-Anna
706  8,10|              the western clergy, the Emperor exclaimed: “O happy Asia!
707  8,10|      friendly support of the western Emperor, must have had a surer hope
708  8,11|              dogs, and the like. The Emperor of Trebizond, realizing
709  8,11|              West, which enabled the Emperor of Nicaea to take decisive
710  8,11|           rebel against the pope and Emperor Baldwin, and after that
711  8,12|          still under Latin rule. The Emperor of Nicaea drew near Constantinople.
712  8,12|             in their estimate of the Emperor of Nicaea, John Vatatzes
713  8,12|           Minor, Magnesia, where the Emperor was buried. This life of
714  8,12|         honor the memory of the late Emperor John the Merciful.[91] The
715  8,12|            energy of the best Nicene Emperor. The generations after John
716  8,13|          shield,”[94] was proclaimed emperor with the consent of the
717  8,13|          almost the only “Byzantine” Emperor who paid attention to the “
718  8,13|              96]~ In 1258, the young Emperor breathed his last in the
719  8,13|             philosophically educated Emperor lived and worked in the
720  8,13|           under the wise rule of the Emperor who had exerted all his
721  8,13|              whom he was afraid. The Emperor received the ambassadors,
722  8,13|            and, in 1259, was crowned emperor.~ The chief external danger
723  8,13|              grant free trade to the Emperor’s subjects, and to support
724  8,13|            play the sorry part of an emperor in exile.”[112]~ Thus, the
725  8,14|              stipulated that, if the Emperor had been elected from the
726  8,14|            letter of the first Latin Emperor to the pope, Baldwin wrote
727  8,14|               With the permission of Emperor Henry, the Greek clergy
728  8,14|        crowned Theodore Lascaris the Emperor of Nicaea. This was a fact
729  8,14|        recognized by Innocent III as emperor or even as despot and was
730  8,14|           the Holy See and the Latin Emperor. But this papal admonition
731  8,14|             regent and then as joint emperor with Baldwin II of Constantinople,
732  8,14|           union of the Churches. The Emperor had submitted his conditions —
733  8,14|           from the city of the Latin Emperor and the Latin clergy — and
734  8,14|      professed to believe that he as Emperor should guide the ecclesiastical
735  8,14|            political concerns of the Emperor; as for his father, the
736  8,14|              to the pope, but to the Emperor of Nicaea.[135] In 1256,
737  8,14|             not even received by the Emperor, who had meantime changed
738  8,15|             have been granted by the Emperor to the members of his officeholding
739  8,15|            some confiscations by the Emperor of movable and immovable
740  8,15|           father looked upon the new Emperor with confidence, hoping
741  8,15|           Blemmydes, who accused the Emperor of extorting too many taxes
742  8,15|         became the possession of the Emperor of Nicaea.[152]~ Just before
743  8,16|        entrusted to Blemmydes by the Emperor was the future historian
744  8,16|              his contemporaries. The Emperor confided to his care the
745  8,16|              dedicated to his pupil. Emperor Theodore II Lascaris, depicts
746  8,16|          dignities and virtues; this emperor is a model of all good,
747  8,16|            to the highest good.” The emperor as “the prop and stay of
748  8,16|            and for justice. “May the emperor,” Blemmydes said at the
749  8,16|        statement: “First of all, the emperor must control himself, and
750  8,16|      interests of the Empire and its Emperor, so that, perhaps, he was
751  8,16| distinguished: George Acropolita and Emperor Theodore II Lascaris. Born
752  8,16|             and, by the order of the Emperor, conducted the negotiations
753  8,16|        closely connected the name of Emperor Theodore II Lascaris. George
754  8,16|            influence upon the future Emperor, who in his letters called
755  8,16|          school and been sent to the Emperor for examination, Theodore
756  8,16|             is as follows: A certain emperor Rodophilos has two sons,
757  8,16|         Recognizing the son of their emperor, the sailors immediately
758  8,16|              was backed by the rival Emperor of Nicaea.[193] E. A. Chernousov
759  8,16|         Thessalonica, brother of the Emperor of Thessalonica, Theodore
760  8,16|           crowned Theodore of Epirus Emperor of Thessalonica, has left
761  8,17|      monastery lands, which gave the Emperor a rich source for land grants.
762  8,17|          whoever he might have been (emperor, bishop, or private individual),
763  8,17|            referred to the period of Emperor Severus Alexander, i.e.
764  8,17|     especially under the latinophile Emperor Manuel I (1143-1180), actual
765  8,17|            confirmed by Basil’s son, Emperor Leo VI the Philosopher (
766  8,17|               222]~ The edict of the Emperor Justinian II, which was
767  8,17|            and the Novels reveal the Emperor’s struggle against the aristocracy
768  8,17|             sixth century, who under Emperor Maurice (582-602) stood
769  8,17|     emphasize the fact that the same Emperor Maurice under whom the two
770  8,17|     independently of orders from the emperor or a military superior …
771  8,17|            took place under the last emperor of the Comnenian dynasty,
772  9,1 |       Michael Palaeologus, the first Emperor of the restored Byzantine
773  9,2 |           and also the last powerful emperor of restored Byzantium.”[
774  9,2 |            to take the new title of “Emperor of the Hellenes.” The former
775  9,2 |        accident had made a Byzantine emperor.”[10] Andronicus married
776  9,2 |             daughter of the titulary Emperor of Romania (of the former
777  9,2 |            abdicate. The old deposed Emperor, whose long reign had been
778  9,2 |       affairs of the Empire. The new Emperor, giving himself up as before
779  9,2 |      Andronicus III in 1341, the new Emperor, John V, his eldest son,
780  9,2 |         around the throne of the boy Emperor. Against John Cantacuzene
781  9,2 |             of the widow of the late Emperor, Anne of Savoy, who had
782  9,2 |           Thrace, proclaimed himself Emperor (John VI). Shortly after,
783  9,2 |           put on the head of the new emperor a golden crown. Then the
784  9,2 |           Cantacuzene was recognized Emperor on a par with John Palaeologus.
785  9,2 |   Palaeologus; he proclaimed his son Emperor, declared him co-emperor
786  9,2 |      Palaeologus finally became sole Emperor, but received, especially
787  9,2 |         reign. His son Manuel became Emperor (1391-1425).~ A short time
788  9,2 |      ascension to the throne the new Emperor had married Helena, daughter
789  9,2 |         Paris. In this miniature are Emperor Manuel, his wife Helena,
790  9,2 |            the Venetians who, on the Emperor’s return from Italy, had
791  9,2 |           from 1425 to 1448. The new Emperor was married three times,
792  9,2 |             great influence over the Emperor, who outlived her. There
793  9,2 |             the brothers of the late Emperor; and the highest officials
794  9,2 |             of the choice of the new Emperor and approved the candidate.
795  9,2 |             a third wife for the new Emperor, in the West and East, at
796  9,2 |              to find a bride for the Emperor in Trebizond and Iberia.[
797  9,2 |          moment the eyes of the last Emperor, in search of a bride, turned
798  9,3 |           highly; and the last Latin Emperor Baldwin II, who had fled
799  9,3 |              with the expelled Latin Emperor, Baldwin II, in which the
800  9,3 |       example, who obtained from the Emperor the right to work and exploit
801  9,3 |            the church union, and the Emperor’s promise to submit entirely
802  9,3 |            the side of the Byzantine Emperor.~ It could hardly be expected
803  9,3 |            49] In addition, the last Emperor of Nicaea, John IV Lascaris,
804  9,3 |            offended by the Byzantine Emperor; the Serbs and Bulgars,
805  9,3 |        inclined to the desire of the Emperor, not only from fear of the
806  9,3 |          forcible subjugation of the Emperor. But the pope succeeded
807  9,3 |       conference of the pope and the Emperor were immediately fixed:
808  9,3 |          Charles, the titulary Latin Emperor, and Venice “for the recovery
809  9,3 |             of Aragon, the Byzantine Emperor, Michael VIII, the representatives
810  9,3 |           the power of the Byzantine Emperor, so that the Mamluks needed
811  9,4 |            seemed in danger, and the Emperor “seemed to sleep or be dead.”[
812  9,4 |       extorted from the hard pressed Emperor unheard-of conditions: the
813  9,4 |             to his marriage with the Emperor’s niece, the granting of
814  9,4 |             marriage of Roger to the Emperor’s niece was celebrated at
815  9,4 |            his own, though under the Emperor’s suzerainty, on the other,
816  9,4 |    government of Constantinople. The Emperor recalled Roger to Europe,
817  9,4 |   negotiations between Roger and the Emperor ended in Roger’s obtaining
818  9,4 |      obtaining the title next to the Emperor’s, that of Caesar, never
819  9,4 |       seventh century at the time of Emperor Heraclius and occupied the
820  9,4 |       alliance against the Byzantine emperor, if Frederick would allow
821  9,4 |       advantage of the fact that the Emperor and John |Cantacuzene were
822  9,4 |              Before the death of the Emperor in 1341, Stephen Dushan,
823  9,4 |              earlier Byzantine time, Emperor Anastasius I, who came from
824  9,4 |         second Bulgarian Empire, the Emperor of Nicaea John Ducas Vatatzes,
825  9,4 |             of Constantinople, whose Emperor actively supported the Genoese.
826  9,5 |              over the Greeks, not as emperor of the Romans, but as tsar
827  9,5 |             In assuming the title of emperor (basileus) and autocrat
828  9,5 |             influence of the eastern emperor. There is no doubt that
829  9,5 |              first of all, to become emperor of the Romans, and then
830  9,5 |            passed from the Byzantine emperor to a new master, upon whom
831  9,5 |      patriarch for his coronation as emperor. As the choice of that patriarch
832  9,6 |    discontent in Byzantium, with the Emperor and government, and finally,
833  9,6 |             Turkish possessions. The Emperor continued to pay tribute
834  9,6 |              threatened to blind the Emperor’s son and heir, Manuel,
835  9,6 |           long negotiations with the Emperor at last got his consent.
836  9,7 | Constantinople, where he was crowned emperor. According to Ducas, Bayazid,
837  9,7 |          Ducas related, gave the new Emperor these words from the sultan: “
838  9,7 |               But the sultan put the Emperor Manuel at the head of the
839  9,7 |           after he had persuaded the Emperor to go with him to the West
840  9,7 |             of government during the Emperor’s absence. Late in the year
841  9,7 |              compassion. Whether the Emperor saw the pope or not is doubtful.
842  9,7 |            of his long journey.~ The Emperor arrived in France at a complex
843  9,7 |             was an eyewitness of the Emperor’s entrance into Paris describes
844  9,7 |          French, was worthy of being Emperor.[157]~ His stay in Paris
845  9,7 |     Satisfied with that promise, the Emperor went to London, where he
846  9,7 |         exist describing the way the Emperor spent his leisure time in
847  9,7 |        Manuel had his residence, the Emperor turned his attention, among
848  9,7 |             In his leisure time, the Emperor made a fine description
849  9,7 |            in Asia Minor induced the Emperor to leave France at once
850  9,7 |         months after the battle. The Emperor prepared quickly for his
851  9,7 |          Dubrovnik), hoping that the Emperor would stop there on his
852  9,7 |     manuscript is the picture of the Emperor, his wife, and their three
853  9,7 |             does not know that he is Emperor would say from his appearance
854  9,7 |            his appearance that he is Emperor.”[162]~ The fruitlessness
855  9,7 |            of the Constantinopolitan emperor, who became a sort of viceroy
856  9,7 |             a sort of viceroy of the emperor in the Peloponnesus. At
857  9,7 |              Despot at the time. The Emperor’s first measure to protect
858  9,7 |            third century A.D. by the Emperor Valerian when he fortified
859  9,7 |       pamphlets was addressed to the Emperor, and the other to the Despot
860  9,7 |             head of all should be an emperor — basileus. Opposed to mercenary
861  9,7 |            errors on the part of the Emperor, by confidence and peace.
862  9,7 |            and peace. Once, with the Emperor’s knowledge, the sultan
863  9,7 |           pitched his tents; but the Emperor did not descend from his
864  9,7 |             made with the Turks, the Emperor pledged himself to continue
865  9,7 |      followed the hearse of the dead Emperor. Such a crowd of mourning
866  9,7 |            strength of the Byzantine emperor, but by the Mongol power
867  9,7 |         personal influence which the Emperor had with the Turkish sultans
868  9,8 |      according to a tradition, by an Emperor at the command of a Turkish
869  9,8 |              Trebizond, and told the Emperor, who was interested in the
870  9,8 |             testify to the Christian Emperor’s difficult last attempt
871  9,8 |           pope. For this purpose the Emperor himself with the Greek patriarch
872  9,8 |               who was to be the last emperor of Byzantium, took advantage
873  9,9 |          power of the last Byzantine emperor was confined to Constantinople
874  9,9 |         capital, and governed by the Emperor’s brothers.~ Honesty, generosity,
875  9,9 |             of his letters calls the Emperor a man “of pious and lofty
876  9,9 |           say, was foreordained. The Emperor had all possible corn supplies
877  9,9 |          intimate friend of the last Emperor, and a very well-known diplomat,
878  9,9 |         Thucydides, to the “greatest emperor, king of kings, Mehemet”;[
879  9,9 |           April 22 the city with the Emperor at its head was struck by
880  9,9 |           prayer and tears. Upon the Emperor’s order, religious processions
881  9,9 |          church of Holy Wisdom … The emperor and such of the leaders
882  9,9 |        Eastern and Western churches; emperor and nobles, the last remnant
883  9,9 |            be worthy of thought. The emperor and his followers partook
884  9,9 |            and before its last brave emperor. If the scene so vividly
885  9,9 |          gate (or Pempton) where the Emperor was fighting. One of the
886  9,9 |             new breaches opened. The Emperor fought heroically as a simple
887  9,9 |          death of the last Byzantine Emperor; for this reason his death
888  9,9 |           that of the last Byzantine Emperor, over which a simple oil
889  9,9 |          Pope Nicholas V the western emperor, Frederick III, calling
890  9,9 |             a head: neither Pope nor Emperor is adequately esteemed or
891  9,10|             opinion of the Byzantine Emperor this danger could be prevented
892  9,11|              attitude of the eastern Emperor towards the union had greatly
893  9,11|             the epoch of Manuel, the emperor had sought for union not
894  9,11|            Roman church, the eastern Emperor met with stubborn opposition
895  9,11|              active supporter of the Emperor in his project of reconciliation
896  9,11|              grand logothete and the Emperor’s friend. It was intended
897  9,11|           the invitation of the pope Emperor Michael Palaeologus himself
898  9,11|       achieved on condition that the Emperor should recognize filioque,
899  9,11|         Charles of Anjou so that the Emperor, in diverting all his forces
900  9,11|              not be agreeable to the Emperor, who was unable to forget
901  9,12|         continual collision with the emperor. In this respect the zealots’
902  9,12|            they wished to submit the Emperor to severe ecclesiastical
903  9,12|              chosen patriarch by the Emperor of Nicaea, Theodore II Lascaris,
904  9,12|          would be a mere tool in the Emperor’s hands. But Theodore’s
905  9,12|           severe collisions with the Emperor and led to the formation
906  9,12|           John IV Lascaris, the last Emperor of Nicaea. The infuriated
907  9,12|            of Nicaea. The infuriated Emperor deposed Arsenius and sent
908  9,12|              speeches condemning the Emperor and exalting the deposed
909  9,12|        church. First of all, the new Emperor solemnly renounced the union
910  9,12|           political plot against the Emperor, hoping, in the case of
911  9,12|      elucidated, and they sided with Emperor John V Palaeologus against
912  9,12|             under the control of the Emperor alone. He ordained the protos,
913  9,14|         conversion to Catholicism of Emperor John V.~ Towards the seventh
914  9,14|            who notified him that the Emperor was anxious to adopt Catholicism
915  9,14|      Christians. On the same day the Emperor dined with the pope; all
916  9,14|       Through Naples and Venice, the Emperor returned to Constantinople.
917  9,14|            energetic son, the future Emperor Manuel, came in person to
918  9,14|            father. Shortly after the Emperor’s departure, Pope Urban
919  9,14|     Nevertheless this journey of the Emperor is of interest as an episode
920  9,15|             opened negotiations with Emperor John VIII. The Council of
921  9,15|  Constantinople.[285] Meanwhile, the Emperor was nearing agreement with
922  9,15|              with unusual solemnity. Emperor John VIII with his brother;
923  9,15|          these dogmas, and the weary Emperor was on the point of leaving
924  9,15|   promulgated in the presence of the Emperor on July 6, 1439, in the
925  9,15|             Council of Florence; the Emperor’s sailing from Constantinople,
926  9,15|             Council of Florence, the Emperor’s departure with his retinue
927  9,15|            made from life during the Emperor’s stay at Florence.[286]~
928  9,15|           union.~ The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI, like his
929  9,17|           Mongols, after meeting the Emperor, Andronicus II, and with
930  9,17|           was kindly received by the Emperor and by his young son and
931  9,17|         treated at Constantinople by Emperor John VIII, When, on his
932  9,17|            to house the ships.” “The Emperor’s Palace must have been
933  9,17|             statement of Tafur: “The Emperor’s state is as splendid as
934  9,17|         remained in the hands of the Emperor were not paid; all the balances
935  9,17|        despot one of the sons of the Emperor John V. The Despotat of
936  9,17|            belonged to the Byzantine Emperor, the wealthy landlords played
937  9,17|  proclamation of John Cantacuzene as Emperor, and manifested itself in
938  9,17|           Cantacuzene was proclaimed Emperor with the support of the
939  9,17|          coins of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI, are known.[
940  9,18|   Cantacuzene was the only Byzantine Emperor, to write detailed memoirs
941  9,18|              he even proposed to the Emperor a calendar reform. Gregoras,
942  9,18|            He therefore incurred the Emperor’s anger and in spite of
943  9,18|             of Morea. He accompanied Emperor John VIII to the Council
944  9,18|           complete confidence of the Emperor. His contemporary Nicephorus
945  9,18|             subservience towards the emperor.[414] Holobolus was also
946  9,18|         author of an encomium of the Emperor Michael VIII.[415] Manuel
947  9,19|           and in Constantinople. The Emperor, Andronicus the Younger,
948  9,19|            to the Constantinopolitan Emperor, whom I know neither personally
949  9,19|        therefore imagines that [that Emperor] is as benevolent and gracious
950  9,19|          gracious to me as the Roman Emperor; as if the similarity of
951  9,19|         Chrysoloras, by order of the Emperor, came on a special political
952  9,19|           classes. At the request of Emperor Manuel II, who was at that
953  9,19|           and then, in behalf of the Emperor, made a long journey to
954  9,19|            Nicaea he accompanied the Emperor to the Council of Ferrara-Florence
955 App  |          Constantine the Great (sole emperor), 324-337.~~~~~~Constantine,